Inch By Inch With Syria

JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

S

yrian Foreign Minister
Farouk al-Sharaa's round
of meetings in Washington
this week produced a fa-
miliar result — a small dose of
progress, but no breakthroughs
in the troubled talks between
Syria and Israel.
That came despite a series of
new American suggestions for
breaking the deadlock. But con-
trary to reports in the Israeli
press, those suggestions were
mostly a matter of verbal nuance
that reflected what Israel has
been saying all along, not major
"bridging" proposals.
After Mr. al-Sharaa's meetings
with President Bill Clinton and
Secretary of State Warren
Christopher, administration of-
ficials referred to a "narrowing"
of the gap between the two coun-
tries — but confirmed that the
gap is still a wide one.

The new American sugges-
tions involved Syria's insistence
that any security arrangements
following a deal be equal. That
means that a Syrian pullback
from the Golan Heights would be
matched by an geographically
equivalent Israeli withdrawal —
something Israeli officials insist
would put their smaller country
at a strategic disadvantage.
The administration formula
simply calls for reciprocal
arrangements
without geographic parity,
which might be more appealing
to anxious Israeli voters.
Mr. al-Sharaa's meetings con-
firmed the peace process strate-
gy of gocusing primarily on
detailed talks about possible se-
curity arrangements first, and
leaving the general outlines of a
Syrian-Israeli treaty to a later
stage in the negotiations.

Democratic
Jewish Push

With a critical election year in
the offing, the National Jewish
Democratic Council (NJDC) is
making some big changes that
leaders hope will allow the group
to play a bigger role in the cam-
paign to restore Congress to De-
mocratic rule.
The organization, created by
a cadre of Jews active in the 1988
Michael Dukakis campaign, will
scale back its ambitious grass-
roots operation and turn more to-
wards fundraising for candidates
in selected states.
The group will focus heavily
on seven states considered criti-
cal for President Clinton's re-
election chances, including New
York, Illinois and California, and
on a handful of key House and
Senate races where the group's
grassroots network can be most
effective.
Although the legal details have
not been fully explored, the group
is moving more towards becom-
ing a fund-raising organization
that bundles money to selected
candidates.
"NJDC has been doing very
well," said Hyman Bookbinder,
an NJDC founder. "This repre-
sents a tightening up of our func-
tions and a bigger focus on those
areas where we can contribute
the most to Democratic victories
next year."
Political consultant Liz
Schrayer has put together a plan
for the organization's overhaul.
The group is also losing its ex-
ecutive director. Steve Gutow,
who has served with NJDC since

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